Karen and John Greenwood indicate where a rear sliding door was pried open at Sun Country Foods.
The back door at the Food Mill on Bayly.
Two Mulwala businesses are determined to remain open during the busy pre-Easter week despite suffering burglaries in recent days.
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Sun Country wholesale foods suffered a burglary late Sunday and Food Mill on Bayly cafe overnight Monday, with both businesses finding their stores trashed and foodstuffs and other items missing.
Sun Country owners Karen and John Greenwood said access was gained using a star picket to pry open a rear sliding door, while a back door was similarly bent open at Food Mill on Bayly.
Food Mill owner Sheree McNeight found a trail of coins coming from the front door when she arrived at work at 5.10am.
“When I put the key in the door it was already open. There were sandwiches all over the floor, trolleys and crates pulled out, bins were turned over,” she said.
Both venues had expensive seafood stocks ransacked, the Food Mill losing a freezerload of lobsters, scallops, prawns and mussels ordered ahead of Good Friday and the Easter long weekend.
An office at Sun Country Foods trashed in Sunday's burglary.
But both owners said they would soldier on and were confident they could still meet speciality seafood orders as well as regular requests in coming days.
Police forensics brushed for fingerprints at the Food Mill on Tuesday with Mulwala Sgt Gary Lewis saying it was “unusual” to have two burglaries in such quick succession and police weren’t discounting a connection.
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